Engineered foods are designed by smart people, and the goal is not usually to make you healthy; the goal is to sell as many units as possibl...
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Showing posts with label leptin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leptin. Show all posts
Hormonal reductionism is as myopic as biochemical reductionism
adiponectin,
evolution,
interleukin-10,
interleukin-6,
leptin,
resistin,
tumor necrosis factor-alpha
Biochemistry-based arguments can be very misleading. Yet, biochemistry can be extremely useful in the elucidation of diet and lifestyle effe...
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Adiponectin supplementation: Body fat loss
Adiponectin is a hormone exclusively secreted by body fat. This hormone has been recently gaining attention from researchers because of some...
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Body fat and disease: How much body fat can I lose in one day?
adiponectin,
body fat,
fasting,
glycogen depletion,
inflammation,
intermittent fasting,
leptin,
obesity,
research,
resistin
Body fat is not an inert deposit of energy. It can be seen as a distributed endocrine organ. Body fat cells, or adipocytes, secrete a number...
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Subcutaneous versus visceral fat: How to tell the difference?
The photos below, from Wikipedia, show two patterns of abdominal fat deposition. The one on the left is predominantly of subcutaneous abdomi...
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Lipotoxicity or tired pancreas? Abnormal fat metabolism as a possible precondition for type 2 diabetes
The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of causes. The diseases i...
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Refined carbohydrate-rich foods, palatability, glycemic load, and the Paleo movement
adiponectin,
glycemic index,
glycemic load,
insulin,
leptin,
paleo diet,
research,
tumor necrosis factor-alpha
A great deal of discussion has been going on recently revolving around the so-called “carbohydrate hypothesis of obesity”. I will use the ac...
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